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The Structure of Ice-three (Ice III) and Ice-nine (Ice IX)

Note that in these structural diagrams the hydrogen-bonding is ordered whereas in reality it is random in ice-three (obeying the 'ice rules': two hydrogen atoms near each oxygen, one hydrogen atom on each O····O bond).

 

 

 

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